The films of
Isabelle Huppert
César et Rosalie (1972)
Claude Sautet 		  Les Valseuses (1974)
Bertrand Blier 		  Dupont-Lajoie (1975)
Yves Boisset 		 
     
With its memorable dream-like photography and impassioned acting performances, César et Rosalie – quite possibly Claude Sautet’s best film...  [More...]   Not only is this Bertrand Blier’s first major film; it is also the film which propelled actor Gérard Depardieu to stardom. Although the film has its strengths – mainly some very funny comic situations...  [More...]   In one of the earliest of his political thrillers, director Yves Boisset broached the controversial subject of racism – not just its banality in society in general but also its malign influence on police procedure...  [More...]  
Violette Nozière (1978)
Claude Chabrol 		  Les Soeurs Brontë (1979)
André Téchiné 		  Loulou (1980)
Maurice Pialat 		 
     
The true story of Violette Nozière provided director Claude Chabrol with ample material for him to explore his pet themes of bourgeois repression and the psychology of a murderer...  [More...]   André Téchiné directs this intensely sombre portrait of the famous Brontë sisters with a love of his subject and an acute artistic vision...  [More...]   This film is a satire of modern living and explores the relative merits of prosperity and the freedom that unemployment can bring. Pialat argues that having a good job and a nice home is no substitute for a fulfilling...  [More...]  
Coup de torchon (1981)
Bertrand Tavernier 		  Eaux profondes (1981)
Michel Deville 		  Passion (1982)
Jean-Luc Godard 		 
     
In common with many of Tavernier’s films, Coup de Torchon is a multi-layered film which, whilst distinctly unsettling, seems to have a strong underlying message...  [More...]   Although somewhat marred by its jarring excesses (particularly the overuse of music to create and emphasise mood), Eaux profondes is a respectable adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel...  [More...]   Depending on your predisposition towards Jean-Luc Godard, or your stamina, this is either an intriguing development of Godard’s art form, challenging the fundamentals of film making...  [More...]  
Coup de foudre (1983)
Diane Kurys 		  La Femme de mon pote (1983)
Bertrand Blier 		  Une affaire de femmes (1988)
Claude Chabrol 		 
     
With two formidable actresses in the leading roles and a female director, Coup de foudre is a rare French film with a distinctly feminine perspective...  [More...]   The ménage-à-trois situation is a recurring theme in director Bertrand Blier’s deliciously subversive filmography and it is always interesting to compare the different way he approaches the subject...  [More...]   This is another fine film from one of France’s most popular and prolific directors, Claude Chabrol. It is a film that has the mood and feel of the deceptively simple thrillers for which Chabrol is better known...  [More...]  
Madame Bovary (1991)
Claude Chabrol 		  Après l'amour (1992)
Diane Kurys 		  La Séparation (1994)
Christian Vincent 		 
     
At two and a half hours in length, this film is a detailed and faithful adaptation of Flaubert’s masterpiece of the same title. It captures the intimacy of that great work as well as enacting the grand set pieces...  [More...]   In one of her better films, Diane Kurys paints a vivid and rather moving portrait of mid-life crisis – as experienced by the generation that...  [More...]   This is a melancholic and exquisitely perceptive analysis of the disintegration of a relationship. The film manages to evoke – without histrionics or sentimentality...  [More...]  

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